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By James Kitfield As U.S. and NATO officials have scrambled to react to the evolving crisis in Ukraine, they have noted an alarming pattern of behavior by Russian President Vladimir Putin: At every juncture where they expected him to de-escalate the crisis, the former KGB…

By James Kitfield, Originally Published in Yahoo News, July 2014 Little noticed among the disturbing tableau of images coming out of Iraq in recent weeks is a changing of the guard evident at the Baghdad International Airport (BIAP). As the crisis has deepened, U.S.…